Andrew A. Lance is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Real Estate Practice Group. He is resident in the New York office, where he is also a member of the firm's Finance Committee.  Mr. Lance's clients include private real estate equity funds, hedge funds, corporate and individual developers and owners of office, retail, hotel, industrial, recreational, professional sports and entertainment real estate, mortgage and mezzanine lenders, REITs and other public and privately-held companies investing in or using real estate, investment banks and other participants in structured finance transactions.  Mr. Lance also represents many not-for-profit organizations, particularly those involved in the performing arts.

Mr. Lance is a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.  Mr. Lance was most recently listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2009. He will be recognized in New York Magazine's "2009 New York Areas Best Lawyers" edition.   Mr. Lance was also recognized by Legal 500 in 2007 as a "big player in the complex field of mezzanine and preferred equity financing techniques."  Mr. Lance was the lead attorney for the transactions that won the Real Estate Board of New York's Award for the Most Creative Retail Deal of the Year twice in the last four years: the relocation of Hard Rock Café to Times Square (2004), and the lease of the entire building at One Times Square by Walgreens (2007).  Mr. Lance has been honored by Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the service organization for not-for-profit performing arts organizations in New York City, for his support for A.R.T./New York and its member organizations.  He joined the Board of A.R.T./New York in 2004, and was elected in 2005 to form and head their Audit Committee.  In addition, Mr. Lance is on the Consulting Advisory Board for Youth, I.N.C.

Mr. Lance joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in March 1999. From 1993 until March 1999, Mr. Lance served as Vice President and General Counsel of Defender Industries, Inc., a national marine supply wholesale, e-commerce fulfillment and retail distribution firm in Waterford, Connecticut. He previously practiced law as Special Counsel with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York from 1984 to 1993. Mr. Lance also has served as a consultant to investment banking and management consulting clients on securitized finance and real estate transactions, and on global facilities leasing. He has been an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School since 1985, teaching Commercial Real Estate Leasing and Land Transfer and Finance, a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, and a lecturer in the graduate programs of the New York University Real Estate Institute.  He also is a frequent lecturer at programs of the Practicing Law Institute, the New York State Bar Association, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and IMN Conferences.

Mr. Lance earned his Juris Doctor in 1983 from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in 1980 from Princeton University and attended the University of Paris. Mr. Lance was a Fellow of the Coro Foundation Leadership New York Program for the 1999-2000 term.  Mr. Lance has completed the FitchTraining Commercial Real Estate CDO credit risk workshop; he has advised issuers of commercial real estate CDOs and investors in CDOs.